Voice: Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

Nikki Sylianteng got fed up with parking signs that required a law degree to comprehend. So she designed better parking signs, and cities are taking notice.

Entrepreneur Morgan Berman turned her masters thesis into the sustainable living app MilkCrate through a combination of personal passion and deliberate collaboration. Now she’s expanding beyond Philly—and making payroll

Utah is poised to eliminate the state’s homelessness problem through a simple, yet radical, approach: Give everyone on the streets a free apartment with no strings attached.

A community split by demographics and two very different schools comes together for the kids

A Colorado program reduced that state’s teen birth rate by 40 percent by providing young women with long-acting reversible birth control.

Trees provide shade, reduce energy consumption and prettify our city. But still Philadelphians—and even the mayor himself—have made it harder to plant as many as we should. Why can’t we be more like D.C.?

We know less about our democracy than ever before. Want more civic-minded adults? Midge Rendell and others say let’s get back to starting in the classroom